What’s
at stake: When
asked how we have served, the expected reply is the Army, Navy, or Air Force. Just as fish don’t remark the water, our
society is so saturated in militarism we think it like oxygen and do not protest
the toxicity. We have countless ways to serve the public good without violence in
the unnecessary, illegal, unethical wars of the last 70 years.

https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit is a call to action
by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to . ...
Secretary-General's remarks to Member States briefing on the World Humanitarian
Summit - 20 April 2015 ..... World Humanitarian Day.

... the custodian of information of
public human service workers who die in the line of duty. ... Norman W. Fournier, a social worker for 25 years, served as a mental
health... After a removal of an adolescent, the client's father shot him
to death.

To be honored on the plaque, carriers must
have died in the line of duty from ... PostalService on active duty
in the armed forces, when he or she was killed, ... The
plaque was unveiled in conjunction with Workers Memorial
Day in April 2012.

Postal workers are sworn to uphold the Constitution and
protect the mail. ... states the introduction to “In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds. ... too, exacted a
toll, with five people killed, including postal clerks Joseph
Curseen ...

postalnews.com/postalnewsblog/.../nalc-statement-on-the-shooting-death-...Nov 24, 2013 - The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering
a $100,000 reward for ...not be any postal workers dying in the line of duty..due
to their working ...

A new book, Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s
Bravest, covers CCR's successful challenge of the
FDNY's racially discriminatory hiring practices in U.S. and Vulcan Society v. City of New York as
well as the decades of activism to integrate the FDNY that our landmark case
was a part of. The book’s author, Ginger Adams Otis, was joined by Vulcan
Society leaders – current President Regina Wilson and FDNY Diversity Advocate
Mike Marshall – on the Leonard Lopate Show last
week, one of a series of interviews and events in conjunction with the book's
release. When CCR filed the first Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
charge against the FDNY in 2002, the department was 2.9 percent Black, in a
city where 27 percent of the residents are Black. After the case was settled in
2014, with a new, fairer exam and oversight of the firefighter appointment
process, the FDNY appointed the most diverse class in its history, with 17 percent
Black firefighters and 24 percent Latino firefighters. As other remedies from
the case start taking effect, New York City may finally have a fire department
that looks like the city it serves. Center for Constitutional Rights Weekly
Newsletter, June 1, 2015

LIBRARIANS,
professionals rarely killed at work, but heroes in many other ways, for
example:

The American Library
Association opposed Section 215 of the Patriot Act to protect library
records in defense of constitutional privacy.
One subdivision of the ALA is its Social
Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT).
The SRRT opposed the entire “Patriot” Act and supported whistleblowing
and individual whistleblowers by name, including Edward Snowden. The SRRT also opposed the Iraq War, torture,
and government disinformation. What was
your Service—the ALA or the SRRT? “My
point is that mainstream organizational leadership will rarely take bold
positions without being pushed by grassroots activists” (Kagan); in this case,
a brave subcommittee. --Dick

Sources:

Zoe Carpenter, “Librarians vs. the NSA.” The Nation (May 25, 2015)

Al Kagan, “Hidden in the Stacks.” The
Nation (June 15, 2015).

REPORTERS

INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTERS KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY, Google Search, July 30, 2015 (a search for Foreign Correspondents Killed found a few more reports)

For the film of the same name based on her
life and death, see Veronica Guerin
(film).... Regardless, she vowed to continue her investigations. .... and those of 38 other
international journalists who died in the line of duty in
1996 were added to ...

May 11, 2015 - Federal Bureau of Investigation ... An additional 44 officers were
accidentally killed in the line of duty in 2014. ... available in the Uniform CrimeReporting Program's publication Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, ...

Jun 30, 2015 - The Post is tracking more than a dozen details
about each killing — including the race ... In
some cases, The Post conducted additional reporting. ... Post is tracking every fatal shooting by a
police officer acting in the line of duty in
2015. ... Victoria police declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.

May 30, 2015 - Although race was a dividing line, those who died by police
gunfire often had much in common. ... The low rate mirrors the
findings of a Post investigationin April that found ... Reporting is voluntary, and since 2011, less than 3 percent of
the.... in which a police officer, while on duty, shot and killed a civilian.

According to Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty (Tuesday, November 25; 9 to ...hasn't released the
findings of its investigation into this matter doesn't mean
a ...

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS CONTINUED

Mexico,
Libya, Iraq, Russia, Global

MEXICAN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS MURDERED

Dale, AETN, POV last night Jan. 7, 2013, 9pm
presented REPORTERO on "Is
Journalism Worth Dying for?" on murdered Mexican journalists. A
scarifying film your students might like to see. Btw, does your dept.
sub. to IRE Journal? I could
bring some if not, or if you want extras.

im Hetherington, an Oscar-nominated British
film director and war photographer, and award-winning US photographer Chris
Hondros were killed and two other Western journalists wounded Wednesday in the
besieged Libyan city of Misrata.

Vanity Fair, for which
Hetherington was working, confirmed the death of the 41-year-old who covered
numerous conflicts and won the 2007 World Press Photo Award for his coverage of
US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Hondros, also 41,
suffered grave head injuries in the same mortar attack, said medics in the
western port city of Misrata,
and died hours later from his wounds, Getty Images confirmed to AFP.

Getty "is deeply
saddened to confirm the death of Staff Photographer Chris Hondros who has died
of injuries while covering events in Libya on April 20th," the
agency said in a statement.

Two other colleagues,
Guy Martin, a freelance photographer working for Panos, and photographer
Michael Brown, working for Corbis, were also wounded in the attack, the
agencies confirmed.

Hetherington and
Hondros were the second and third journalist killed in Libya in its two-month-old
conflict. READ MORE

A veteran Washington Post special
correspondent was shot to death Sunday in southwest Baghdad while on
assignment, the first reporter for the newspaper to ...www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-reporter_killed_iraqoct15,1,2163065.story
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At least 118 journalists have been killed
in Iraq
while on duty, nearly 100 of them are Iraqis, according to the Committee to
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First Washington Post reporter killed
in Iraq.
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He was the latest in a long line of reporters,
most of them Iraqis, to be killed while covering the Iraq war. He
was the first for The Washington Post. ...www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101400612.html
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Afghan Radio Owner and Reporter Killed.
Zakia Zaki, the owner and manager of Peace Radio and a headmaster of a girls'
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Washington
Post reporter killed in Iraq

BY
JOSHUA PARTLOW AND AMIT R. PALEY |
The
Washington Post

9:41
PM CDT, October 14, 2007 BAGHDAD - A
veteran Washington Post special correspondent was shot to death Sunday in
southwest Baghdad while on assignment, the first reporter for the newspaper to
be killed during the Iraq war.

Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was reporting on the violence that has plagued Baghdad's Sadiyah
neighborhood Sunday afternoon when he was shot in the forehead. According to
residents of the neighborhood and the Iraqi military officers at the scene, he
was taking photographs on a street where several houses had been burned when he
was killed. His wounds appeared to indicate he was shot at close range.

"Courageous beyond imagination, Salih was determined to unveil the
truth," said Sudarsan Raghavan, the Post's Baghdad bureau chief. "He was
instrumental to The Post's coverage of Iraq. He will be sorely missed by
his friends and colleagues."

At least 118 journalists have
been killed in Iraq
while on duty, nearly 100 of them are Iraqis, according to the Committee to
Protect Journalists. Foreign news organizations rely heavily on their Iraqi
staff members to navigate the hazards of reporting here.

He left The Post's Baghdad
bureau Sunday afternoon in a taxi to interview residents in Sadiyah about
clashes between militiamen and insurgents. A Washington Post colleague received
a telephone call just after 4 p.m. from a man who said he was a police officer
and who was using Saif Aldin's cell phone. The man said he was standing next to
Saif Aldin's body, which later was observed lying on the street, covered with
newspapers.

Saif Aldin, a divorced father of a 6-year-old daughter, distinguished himself
as one of the most fearless reporters in The Post's Baghdad bureau. He began work for the paper
in early 2004 as a stringer in his hometown of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

In July 2005, he received a note threatening his life if he did not quit
journalism and leave the city. He refused. "This is my city, and I'm a
journalist," he told colleagues.

Shortly after, he was attacked by two men, who beat him with their fists, a
metal pipe and the butt of a pistol, leaving him with bruises all over his body
and opening a gash in his head that required eight stitches. After he was
released from the hospital, The Post implored him to leave Tikrit. When he
refused, Omar Fekeiki, the newspaper's former office manager and special
correspondent, said he was told he would be fired if he didn't leave.

Saif Aldin later moved to Baghdad,
where he repeatedly braved the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, often
traveling alone.

In addition to his work for The Post, he was studying for his political science
degree at BaghdadUniversity and had
studied Hebrew at the Baghdad University College of Languages. Shortly after
graduating, he was hired as a correspondent in Tikrit for Al-Iraq Al-Yawm, or
Iraq Today. He was hired at The Post on the recommendation of the
editor-in-chief of Al-Iraq Al-Yawm.

Saif Aldin cut an imposing figure: balding and barrel-chested, with a jagged
scar on his muscular neck from a fight in his youth. He remained undaunted by
the potential dangers of reporting in Baghdad.
He met commanders of the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia, and sat down with
leading Sunni insurgents, becoming for The Post a crucial conduit for exploring
the motivations behind the complex violence in Iraq. For security reasons, Saif
Aldin sometimes wrote under a tribal name, Salih Dehema.

Despite his forays into Baghdad's
underworlds, Saif Aldin was always a kind and generous person, with a broad
smile and a warm and frequent laugh.

"Salih's loss reminds us once again of the central role Iraqi journalists
have played in coverage of the war and the immense sacrifices they have made to
help us understand it," said David Hoffman, The Post's assistant managing
editor for foreign news. "We grieve at his death and that of all those
Iraqi and other journalists who have died in the conflict, displaying courage
in the pursuit of truth."

Staff writer Steve Fainaru and special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Zaid
Sabah contributed to this report.

From Iraq to Philippines,
murder is top cause of journalist deaths in ‘05
Death toll is 47 worldwide; Iraq
becomes deadliest recent conflict

New York,
January 3, 2006—Kidnappers
in Iraq, political assassins in Beirut, and hit men in the Philippines made
murder the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists worldwide
in 2005, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows.
Forty-seven journalists were killed in 2005, more than three-quarters of whom
were murdered to silence their criticism or punish them for their work, CPJ's
annual survey found. That compares with 57 deaths in 2004, just under
two-thirds of which were murders.

Iraq,
the most dangerous place for journalists in 2005, also became the deadliest
conflict for the media in CPJ's 24-year history. A total of 60 journalists
have been killed on duty in Iraq
from the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 through the end of
2005. The toll surpasses the 58journalists killed in the Algerian
conflict from 1993 to 1996.

CPJ's analysis also documented a long-term trend—those who murder journalists
usually go unpunished. Slayings were carried out with impunity about 90
percent of the time in 2005, a figure consistent with data collected by CPJ
over more than a decade. Less than 15 percent of journalist murders since 1992
have resulted in the arrest and prosecution of those who ordered the
killings.

Although the 2005 toll reflected a decline from the previous year, it was
still well above the annual average of 34 deaths that CPJ has documented over
the past 10 years. In fact, 104 journalists were killed in 2004 and 2005,
making it the deadliest two-year period since the war in Algeria raged
a decade ago.

"Too many journalists have lost their lives just because they were doing
their jobs, and unresponsive governments bear responsibility for the
toll," CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper said.

"The war in Iraq
might lead one to think that reporters are losing their lives on the
battlefield. But the fact is that three out of four journalists killed around
the world are singled out for murder, and their killers are rarely brought to
justice. It's a terrible indictment of governments that let warlords and
criminals dictate the news their citizens can see and hear."

Iraq
accounted for 22 deaths in 2005, or nearly half of the year's total, CPJ
found. Yet even in that conflict zone, murder accounted for more than 70
percent of the deaths documented by CPJ. The prevalence of targeted killings
reflected the evolving threat in Iraq, where crossfire had been
the leading cause of death the previous two years. Fatal abductions emerged
as a particularly disturbing trend as at least eight journalists were
kidnapped and slain in 2005, compared with one fatal abduction the previous
year.

Iraqi journalists bore the brunt of these attacks as it became increasingly
hazardous for foreign reporters and photojournalists to work in the field.
American freelancer Steven Vincent was the only foreign journalist to be
killed in Iraq
in 2005; five foreigners died there a year earlier.

At least three journalists were killed as a result of fire from U.S. forces,
compared with six such deaths in 2004. U.S. forces' fire has killed 13
journalists between March 2003 and the end of 2005. Read an analysis
of casualties in Iraq.

The Philippines,
where outspoken radio journalists have been murdered in alarming numbers, was
the second deadliest place in 2005. CPJ documented four murders in the Philippines,
a decline from the eight recorded in 2004. The drop was due in part to more
concerted national law enforcement, CPJ's analysis found.

Six countries recorded two deaths each in 2005. Prominent Lebanese columnists
Samir Qassir and Gebran Tueni—both of whom were well-known for their biting
criticism of the Syrian government and its influence over Lebanon—were killed in separate car bombings
in Beirut. A
third Lebanese journalist was maimed in another car bombing. The other
countries with two killings were Russia,
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, and Somalia.

The Americas
showed a marked improvement with four confirmed deaths in 2005, down from
eight a year earlier. But many journalists in the region attributed the drop
to increased self-censorship, a phenomenon that CPJ found prevalent in Colombia and Mexico.

CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a
result of a hostile action, including retaliation for his or her work; in
crossfire while covering a conflict; or while reporting in dangerous
circumstances such as a violent street demonstration.

CPJ continues to investigate the cases of 11 other journalists killed in 2005
to determine whether the deaths were work-related. CPJ staff has compiled
detailed information on journalists killed around the world since 1992. Read statistical
information and case capsules.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS (see Investigative Reporters)

FREELANCE REPORTERS

On June 1, 2015, Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen set free
freelance journalist Casey Coombs, who was taken to a hospital in Oman and is
expected to return to Seattle. Coombs, kidnapped
May 17, worked for The Intercept online
news website and other publications. ,Ahmed
Al-Haj, “Ýemeni Rebels Free U.S. Hostage.”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (June
2, 2015). –Dick